"Forget about such ersatz attractions as Sea World and Disneyland
and Universal Studios Tours — California Babylon is the real thing
... a kick to read.... I am sending my copy to a friend in New York,
a sober historian and starry-eyed movie fan."— Los Angeles Times

"Normal guidebooks
will lead them to Disneyland, and even to the homes of stars, but how
does one find important attractions such as the first McDonald's
restaurant, Marilyn Monroe's high school or the walk of fame reserved
for stars of sex movies? California Babylon delivers the dirt."— Dallas Morning News

"If anything can lend credence to the rube's refrain that California
is full of wackos, it's this sick little tome from Kristan Lawson
and Anneli Rufus ... fascinating reading."— Pittsburgh Tribune

Weird Europe: A Guide to Macabre, Bizarre and Just Plain Weird Sights(coauthored with Kristan
Lawson)

"There are guidebooks and there are guidebooks. Some are full of
baloney; others are full of facts. Then there is a new offering
by Kristan Lawson and Anneli Rufus that is just plain weird....
If you are tired of plodding from one historic church to the next;
or you have had it with famous paintings; or crumbling monuments
are not your thing, then Weird Europe just might be the ticket.
For this 272-pager is packed with some of the oddest sightseeing
curiosities known to humans ... [it's] the definitive guide
to 'cultured' Europe's freaky twin." — Salt Lake City Tribune

"Weird Europe lists much that any traveler will need to know for the most unusual excursion of his or her life." — Strange Magazine

"Not that long ago, a guidebook was a pleasantly stodgy tome with enough basic information so you could pretend you'd actually been to the Louvre instead of lazing over a long lunch.... Then again, you might prefer the romance of antiquity, specifically that to be found in Anneli S. Rufus and Kristan Lawson's Goddess Sites: Europe, which celebrates the feminine side of a rather older Old World." — New York Times

"This journey around the multitude of archaeological sites connected with ancient European Goddess cults taught me a ton of fascinating, scholarly things AND kept me in stitches throughout! Rufus and Lawson are wits par excellence! Marvelous. If you like travel books with a unique twist, find this gem. One of the most truly witty and inspired books I have ever read!" — Amazon.com reader review